Bestselling Author · Keynote Speaker

Capable of far more
than you realize.

Chris Sund is the author of You Are Capable of More, a bestselling guide to self-doubt, ownership, and the potential most people never test. For more than two decades he has helped people grow as leaders and break through self-imposed limits, because the biggest obstacles we face are rarely external.

Chris Sund, author of You Are Capable of More
Conferences and companies that trust Chris on their stage
Definitive Healthcare
Crawford County Memorial Hospital
Iowa Health Care Association
Colorado Health Care Association
South Dakota Health Care Association
Greater Omaha Chamber
emPower
NCCHC
TORCH
Renal Healthcare Association
DisruptHR Omaha
Definitive Healthcare
Crawford County Memorial Hospital
Iowa Health Care Association
Colorado Health Care Association
South Dakota Health Care Association
Greater Omaha Chamber
emPower
NCCHC
TORCH
Renal Healthcare Association
DisruptHR Omaha
NATHO
SIA Staffing
NAHCR
Rural Health Association of Utah
California Staffing
TalentTrack
TravCon
NATHO
SIA Staffing
NAHCR
Rural Health Association of Utah
California Staffing
TalentTrack
TravCon
AHCA
LeadingAge Illinois
AOHP
Virginia Community Healthcare Association
Western States Healthcare Management
Beatstars
ACHE Wisconsin
AHCA
LeadingAge Illinois
AOHP
Virginia Community Healthcare Association
Western States Healthcare Management
Beatstars
ACHE Wisconsin
The Story Behind the Message

Where you start doesn’t
determine where you finish.

Chris isn’t successful because he avoided adversity. He’s successful because he learned how to grow through it.

More about Chris →

Chris Sund knows what it feels like to stand at a crossroads and wonder which direction leads forward. He has faced setbacks that made the path ahead unclear, made decisions he had to work hard to grow past, and lived through the kind of self-doubt that tests everything you believe about your own potential.

What changed wasn’t the circumstances. What changed was the decision to take full ownership — of his attitude, his effort, his growth, and his future. That decision became a discipline. That discipline became a career built around helping others make the same shift.

Today he leads national healthcare organizations, speaks across the country to teams and leaders, coaches people committed to becoming their best, and wrote You Are Capable of More — a no-excuses guide built on the same principles that shaped his life.

His message isn’t about where you’ve been. It’s about what you’re still capable of becoming.

The potential isn’t missing. The permission isn’t pending. It’s already there — beneath every excuse, every hesitation, every “someday.”

— Chris Sund, You Are Capable of More
Background & Roles

Built on decades
of doing the work.

Author

You Are Capable of More — a no-excuses guide to ownership, discipline, and becoming your best self.

Keynote Speaker

Speaking nationally on leadership, ownership, resilience, and performance to teams ready to stop settling.

Maxwell Certified

Certified Speaker, Trainer & Coach through the John Maxwell organization — one of the most recognized leadership programs in the world.

Healthcare Executive

President and COO of Uniti Med and GQR Healthcare, and COO of Nebula — leading national healthcare staffing and workforce organizations.

Bureau Founder

Founder of Amplify Speakers, a national bureau connecting event planners with world-class speakers on leadership, mindset, and performance.

Podcast Host

Host of the Amplify Speakers Podcast — conversations on leadership, mindset, and performing at your best with guests who’ve lived it.

Forbes & Inc. Contributor

Writes for Forbes and Inc. on leadership, culture, and performance, as a member of the Forbes Business Council and the Inc. Leadership Forum.

Amazon
Bestseller
Self-help and personal development
4.9
Average reader rating
35
Reader ratings
Forbes
& Inc.
Where Chris writes
In the Media

Where the book
has shown up.

Television
Radio & Articles
Chris Sund holding You Are Capable of More
The Book

Ten chapters.
Zero excuses.

The book is the result of two decades spent leading teams, coaching individuals, and sitting across from people operating well below their potential — not for lack of talent, but because they’d stopped believing what was still possible. Chris wrote it for the person who knows there’s more in them and is finally ready to prove it.

Ask the Author

Have a question
for Chris?

Whatever you are working through, send it over. Chris reads every question himself and answers it himself, and the answers that would help other people go up on the page with a first name only. It costs nothing, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.

Chris Sund, keynote speaker and author
Work With Chris

Ready to bring this
message to your team?

Chris speaks on ownership, leadership, resilience, and what it takes to build a team that performs at its highest level — challenging people, not just inspiring them. If your organization is ready for that, let’s talk.

Our Mission

To help people become the
best version of themselves.

That is the whole reason this exists. Everything here is free, because the point was never to sell you something. It was to give you what you actually need to become the person you already suspect you could be.

On AirChris Sund interviewed on 10/11 NOW Pure Nebraska about his book You Are Capable of More
In the Media

Booking interviews now.

Chris is available for podcasts, television, radio, print interviews, book signings, and library and campus events. See where the book has shown up, grab the research and press assets, or send a request.

Chris Sund seated holding his book You Are Capable of More
The Newsletter

When I’ve got something worth sending.

Just a story or an idea I picked up that I think will help you.

Sometimes that’s twice in a month. Sometimes it’s not for a while.

Sign up for You Are Capable Of More